But that's an oversimplification, I think. "Simply fully God" sounds like a contradiction in terms. This is what I meant about the "sandals" remark. Angels veil their faces before Him. We can't discuss the "nature" of God without virtually approaching Him and risking blasphemy. I do not mean the unforgivable type, but it is the most delicate of subjects, I believe.
I like the way the NIV puts this passage:
Can you fathom the mysteries of God?
Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do?
They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?
Their measure is longer than the earth
and wider than the sea.
If he comes along and confines you in prison
and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
Surely he recognizes deceivers;
and when he sees evil, does he not take note?
But the witless can no more become wise
than a wild donkey’s colt can be born human.
Job 11:7-12
Just some thoughts
Job was not like we are....
We are now a New Creation in Christ. We have the Holy Spirit indwelling us. All of us do who believed in Jesus. He has been glorified and that places us in a unique placement.
On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified." John 7:37-39
The Scripture says, "we are a New Creation."(2 Corinthians 5:17) The Greek means something that is so new, that it has never existed before. Like how the atomic bomb forever altered and changed man's concept of warfare.
You, and I, are not in Job's shoes. He was an OT saint. We have been called to be the Lord of Creation's Helpmate. That means? Spiritual life on a highest order. We have not been called to be in the dark about what OT saints could not gasp.
The Spirit has been given so that we may be led into all truth that is required of us. We have been called to understand God to the fullest extent any regenerated human soul can, as a believer living on earth. What we are to walk in and understand is to exceed what was understood by any OT saints.
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but
not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming
to nothing.
No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden
and that God destined for our glory before time began." 1 Cor 2:6-7
Hidden from Job. Hidden from Moses... all OT saints.
How many Christians waste their time on petty bickering over subjectivity while trying to a achieve a semblance of "human humility?" Yet, might see those who keep digging deeper as arrogant and proud? Its a pity how reality that is to be found in Christ has been turned on its head. They try to remain the same person they once were, but only nicer... and miss what it is God wants us thinking with.
We need to stop seeing ourselves as living in the same way as OT believers did. For they eventually needed to be under the Law because of their lack of the grace we received when the Holy Spirit entered us and took up His residency forever. Very few OT saints received enduement from the Spirit, and could always have the Holy Spirit taken from them. We? Are going to reign with Christ (if we mature) and should be able to think on a level unheard of even by angels. Its the reason why Peter tells us that angels long to listen in on genuine church teachings. 1 Peter 1:12
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers
will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the
kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers
must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” Jn 4:23-24
No more piety and the law. Its now freedom and inner peace as one grows in gasping and understanding more and more of what had been hidden in God's Word. The Lord is awaiting for His church to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit and sound doctrine making God's Word the very substance of their being. For we are what we eat.
My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love,
so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in
order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in
whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Col 3:2-3
The mysteries we are to now know at this time in history has been hidden in the Word of God! Hidden in Christ! He is the Word of God! (John 1:1)
For, by God's grace we need to be enabled to know and understand the Trinity today in a manner that previous generations were working towards but did not yet achieve. Just like you advanced in knowledge and understanding as you aged. And, Paul and us are all of the same body!
The Word of God is living... We as His body should be Growing and maturing in wisdom! The ongoing maturing of the body of Christ is like a maturing person, and should become wiser and wiser, as the last generation passed down to the next what that next generation is to build upon.
Stop thinking we can not fathom what it is God wants to make known to this generation. For Satan is always advancing in trying to contain Christianity. Yet, God keeps throwing him off balance by developing new insights in the minds of maturing believers, just like the atomic bomb ended WWll.
You still want to be thinking as Job did? Job looked forward to our day...
